What You Need To Know – Our Latest News (5th July 2021)
Here is your start-of-the-week newsletter. It should have all you need to know about what’s happening amongst us. And a quick look should mean you are updated each week.
Here is your start-of-the-week newsletter. It should have all you need to know about what’s happening amongst us. And a quick look should mean you are updated each week.
The work of rebuilding the temple had stalled for 16 years and it seemed like the work that God might not get finished.
It’s into this situation that two prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, come to share a message from God to the Jews.
What can we learn from this for our situations today?
As promised, here is your start-of-the-week shorter, leaner newsletter. It should have all you need to know about what’s happening amongst us. And a quick look should mean you are updated each week.
Every new chapter that begins for a church is a chance to renew their connection with everything that has gone before so that we can step into an unknown future with confidence.
Ahead of our Launch Sunday service this week, I just wanted to remind you of a couple of important things…
Now there are people to see, families to visit, holidays to arrange. Life to live. We might not be back to fully ‘normal’; but it’s in sight…
You start doing something significant. You know it will make a difference and then it begins. It might start with small bugging frustrations but they all pile up until it would be easy to walk away.
How do you keep going?
Ezra 4-6 is a long story of a community finding a way to manage the oppositions, hold ups and snags along the way.
How do you celebrate the past without making it into something it never was? How do you talk about the past that was good without giving the impression that nothing can ever match it in the present or the future?
In the wake of a political miracle, Israel arrived back in their land. There was so much to do: houses to build, a temple to rebuild, a city to renovate, food to be grown and borders to protect.
But first they worshipped.
They knew that regular worship would define them, shape them, remind them of their identity. It still does.
It might not be a perfect experience, but it is the most important thing that the returning church must do.
I have never met him. I couldn’t. But there something about this small, bow-legged, hard-working character that I carry in me…
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